Critique 1/13: Reading Foucault and Veyne with Professor Amy Allen

In Critique 13/13, we turn to 13 critical texts—ranging from Althusser, Beauvoir, Foucault, and Freire to Adorno, Arendt, Sartre, Lorde, and Said.

In our first session with Professor Amy Allen on Wednesday, September 11, 2019, we will address the question: How can we use these texts critically? What can we do with them? How can we put them to work?

The ambition of the seminar series, Critique 13/13, is to ply these 13 critical texts to our political projects today. To put them back to work. Not to historicize them, nor even to read them in their context—or to rehash old debates about them. But instead, to read them with fresh eyes and militant desire, in order to put them to work in our political struggles today.

Our first seminar with Amy Allen will explore that style of reading: plying critical texts to our current contemporary political condition and struggles.

In order to do so, we will read and discuss four texts at Critique 1/13:

In Critique 13/13, we turn to 13 critical texts—ranging from Althusser, Beauvoir, Foucault, and Freire to Adorno, Arendt, Sartre, Lorde, and Said.

In our first session with Professor Amy Allen on Wednesday, September 11, 2019, we will address the question: How can we use these texts critically? What can we do with them? How can we put them to work?

The ambition of the seminar series, Critique 13/13, is to ply these 13 critical texts to our political projects today. To put them back to work. Not to historicize them, nor even to read them in their context—or to rehash old debates about them. But instead, to read them with fresh eyes and militant desire, in order to put them to work in our political struggles today.

Our first seminar with Amy Allen will explore that style of reading: plying critical texts to our current contemporary political condition and struggles.

In order to do so, we will read and discuss four texts at Critique 1/13: